Horseshoe-creaser.



No. s77 ,5v7.- PATENTED JAN. 28, 1908.

JOSEPH OURRAN LOOKE, OF WESTMOUNT, QUEBEC, CANADA.

HORSESHOE-CREASER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 28, 1908.

Application filed December 23. 1906- Serial No. 349-814.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JosEPH CURRAN LocKE, a subject of the King of GreatBritain, residing at VVestmount, county of I-Iochelaga, in the Provinceof Quebec, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inHorseshoe-Creasers; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame. 4

My invention relates to horseshoe-creasers the object of my invention isto provide a device of this character with a plurality of removablecreasing elements; a further object is to provide means for solidlyfixing the creasing elements on an annular member adapted to be keyed ona roll or shaft a further object is to provide on the device means formarking a bar of horseshoe iron into proper length for cutting withrelation to the creases which are formed by the creasing elements; and,my invention consists of the construction, combination and arrangementof parts, as herein illustrated, described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this application, I haveillustrated one form of embodiment of my invention, in which drawingssimilar reference characters designate corresponding parts, and inwhich:

Figure 1 is a vertical section on line 1 1 of Fig. 2, looking in thedirection indicated by the arrow; Fig. 2 is an edge plan view; Fig. 3 isa transverse vertical section on line 33 of Fig. 2, looking in thedirection indicated by the arrow. Fig. 4 is a sectional view on the line44 of Fig. 1

In the art it has been usual to form devices of this character from asingle piece of metal, and to work the metal down to leave projectingtherefrom the creasing and marking members. hen one of these membersbecame worn and broken from use, it was necessary to replace the entirestructure. By my invention, should any creasing element become worn orbroken, it may be readily replaced at a small expense.

In carrying my invention into effect, I provide an annular member 1,adapted to be inserted over a shaft or roll of a horseshoe machine, andadapted to be used in connection with the usual housings on each side.Formed in one vertical face from the periphery towards the center of theannular member, are dove-tailed slots 2, the side walls 3 of whichdiverge inwardly. Rem'ovably disposed in the slots 2 are creasingelements 4, the side walls 5 of which diverge inwardly and coincide inshape and size to the side walls 3 of the slots 2, so that in plan theside walls 5 of the creasing elements 4 are beveled, as best shown at 6in Fig. 2. The outer end of each of the creasing elements 4, is providedwith a raised die 7, adapted to form the crease in the upper face ofthebar of horseshoe iron as it is passed beneath the device. Each die 7 isprovided with a plurality of integral teeth 8, adapted to form adepression in the bar of iron in the crease which is formed by the die7. The teeth 8 are formed on the inner vertical faces of the die 7,because the strain is greatest in the direction of the arrow 9 of Fig.3, so that the strain on the dies 7 is taken up by the adjacent faces ofthe slots 2.

The annular member 1 is provided with an inwardly projecting annu arflange 10, against which is disposed a locking ring 11, the outersurface of which lies beneath the inner ends of the creasing elements 4,and firmly locks the same against movement inward, when the ring 11 andmember 1 are disposed on a roll or shaft. T o lock the member 1 and thering 10 on a shaft or roll, a key-way 12 is provided through the inneredges thereof.

Intermediate of the creasing elements 4 on two sides of the annularmember 1, there is provided an integral tooth 13, which does not projectas far as the teeth 8 on the dies 7. The object of these teeth 13 is tomark the point at which the horse shoe bar is to be cut to form thehorse shoe, which is afterwards bent into proper shape and otherwisefinished. Each half revolution of the device described forms the twocreases necessary to complete one finished shoe, and the teeth 18 markthe places at which the bar should be cut.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a device of the character described, the combination of an annularmember, outwardly-converging slots extending across the side face ofsaid member, each of said slots being formed with under-cut walls,removable elements formed with a taper corresponding to the convergenceof said slots and removable elements, substantially as derovided withinclined side Walls for interscribed. ocking With the under-cut Walls ofsaid In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my slots, dies on the outerends of said elements, hand in the presence of two Witnesses.

5 an annular flange extending from the inner JOSEPH CURRAN LOCKE. i

eri hery of said annular member, and a Witnesses: ocking ring seated onsaid annular flange in C. C. COUSINS,

engagement With the inner ends of said Jos. J. B. CHARBONNEAU.

